FWIW, I have the same problem on an i386 machine with radeon 9200
graphics card. Hard freeze, no msgs, have to hit the ol' reset switch
to get out of it. On reboot, all is well without the bling.

After another update: compiz-0.0.13-0.28.20060817git.fc6,
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-43.fc6, xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.6.2-2.fc6 I see it
still freezing.
But as others have mentioned: *bling* works, when I log into a failsafe
session (but throws some errors about dbus). At least it doesn't hang
the machine.

This used to work for me, but some very recient update fubared it and I
get the hangs as well.

I am using an ATI 9250 card.
I also get a mass of errors when I try "system-config-display --reconfig".
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